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1992 R. Dawkins in Independent (Nexis) 2 May 49 If the evolved parasite was the memic descendant of a long line of successful ancestors, we are entitled to expect the typical ‘mind virus’ to be pretty good at its job of getting itself sucessfully replicated.

1994 Daily Tel. 1 Sept. 7/2 ‘St Jude provides confirmation for the existence of human mind viruses,’ they said. A Royal Mail spokesman said it was impossible to estimate the number of St Jude letters in circulation.

1999 New Scientist 13 Mar. 3/3 In its most extreme form, this view is that there is no ‘self’ or ‘I’ at the core of our psychological being—just a ragbag of replicating mind viruses and genetic predispositions.